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The Eddie Dickens Trilogy Box Set: Awful End/Dreadful Acts/Terrible Times
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Author
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Philip Ardagh.
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Publisher
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Faber & Faber
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Format
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3 pap vols, boxed
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Product Dimensions
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7.8
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5.05
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1.4
inches
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ISBN
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9780571238026
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Pages/Publication Date
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415/2003
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Daedalus Item Code
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22354
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This item is not available.
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Description
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After years of toiling in relative obscurity, Philip Ardagh achieved seeming overnight success with the introduction of his hapless hero Eddie Dickens in a series of hilariously pun-filled books for readers 8 to 12. The plucky and inquisitive lad finds himself at the mercy of numerous oddball relatives and other assorted grownups in Victorian England after his parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of hot water bottles. This boxed set contains the first trilogy of books about Eddie Dickens (there has been another since), in which he stays with his Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud at their house, Awful End; meets an escape artist called The Great Zucchini; and sails with Horatio Scrimshank, captain of the Pompous Pig. "Philip Ardagh is a very, very, very funny man. I've been waiting for him to write an adventure story for ages, and here it is. It's brilliant, it's daft, and it'll make you laugh!"—Vivian French
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